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Two Hundred Fifty-Seven!

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Abstract color wash exercise. I needed to clear my head and start mass producing. Do not be surprised if you suddenly see an increase in images being posted. I am on a mission to finish this challenge by the two-year mark! What I find most entertaining about this type of image making is that it always starts completely unorganized and as it develops I try to pull the image from what I’ve already laid down. It is such a different type of working method from all of the recent animal images which have to be planned even prior to laying the first mark on the paper. Enjoy.

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Two Hundred Fifty-Six!

The project of the day was portraits of a few of my favorite woodland creatures. this included a Chipmunk, Raccoon, Beaver and Deer. I think its interesting how some took on so much character while others are merely an image of a furry creature. Practive makes perfect right?

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The Beaver

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The Chipmunk

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Two Hundred Fifty-Four!

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Squirrels always got nuts! Small little gem from the day, I liked him so he became an official image. Enjoy.

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Two Hundred Fifty!

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Yup, just a deer stopping by to stare you in the face. No Big Deal…

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Two Hundred Forty-Nine!

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I don’t love this at all, but I did it so it counts! This must have been a feet firmly planted on the ground kind of day. Who knows? Enjoy

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Two Hundred Twenty Eight

It’s been a week so far and its Wednesday. As some of you may know I’ve had a cold for like nearly a week now and it keeps evolving into different stages. The EVIL scratchy throat phase, that feels like a cougar tore it up for fun, the awkward unbalanced phase, where you can’t hear anything anyone says to you so you just shake and nod, the uncontrollable snot phase, where any sneeze may result in a fucking eruption of buggers (sorry its gross I know) and the current phase, Coughing Fits. Meaning, that I’ll think you’re grand, I’m fine just a sniffly nose and then the tickle comes and you know that in a matter of seconds a full blow coughing fit is about to follow. So you ungracefully excuse yourself from whatever situation your in; Driving your car while having an interesting phone conversation with your sister, discussing the obnoxious people you have to deal with at work all day or right in the middle of a somewhat serious conversation with your spouse about your future. Either way, BAM! its here and it will be for a few minutes, so accept it. Needless to say this has been my life for about 3 days now and since I am sick of having to excuse myself to go and die in the work bathroom, which at this point I’m sure people think a dying cow is living in there. So I just stop talking to people and start painting. This was the end result, 3 nights of just developing what initially was a hott mess. Now I can confidently say I am somewhat fond of this image. Yay me! My husband, who is wonderful and supportive, but had no idea what I was trying to do stated two things. His first response was, looks like a volcano. What? no no no. His second comment was, I like how it looks like layers or something. YES, that was one of the goals and he got it. I was happy that the color pallet was less rainbow-ish too, as that is a continuously obnoxious theme in my current works. Enjoy and see you next time.

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Two Hundred Twenty-Six

Yesterday was a rather frustrating day. I was preparing for a hike up Mt Katahdin in Maine and after quite a bit of arranging, I started to come down with some sort of bug Thursday morning, which by no means settled yesterday. Needless to say I had to cancel the trip because hiking for 11 hours, then driving home for 6, just didn’t seem like a smart decision in my current condition. Not to mention my husband was in way worse shape then I was with this bug and was absolutely not going to be able to hike. I came home yesterday in the pouring rain, which I love and situated the apartment so I could sit and stare out the window. I started sketching based off of different items in my line of vision and well this was the outcome. Not too much but it is fun to draw so carelessly. Enjoy and see you next time.

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Two Hundred and Six!

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Well, I drew the little fuzzy bit yesterday but wanted to mix it into another image… collage! A little bit of everything in this image. It is busy but I love the end result. Enjoy and see you next time!

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Two Hundred and Five!

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Big fan. As you can see apparently I was inspired by octopi (love this word), mouths, teeth and who knows what else. Honestly, it does not matter to me what the viewer sees within this image just that it evokes some kind of curiosity as to what it is. Enjoy and see you next time!

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Two Hundred and Four!

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It is strange to merely have one picture in a post for me but for whatever reason the other one I took will not upload to the computer and I am being ultra lazy. If I think of it I will add a photo at another date. This image is somewhat of a close up of the entire image, but I really like the general mix of line and shape. Enjoy and I’ll see you next time.

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